Parents who went to Big 3 private who chose to send their kids public

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Anonymous wrote:It seems to me that although many of the posters claim that they want to send their kids to public first because they're not into status, it is per Cicely because they're so concerned about status that they want to make sure that their kids graduate from a name private school. Otherwise, why not just send them to public all the way through.

Agreed. Like some of the previous posters, I prefer to send my kids to private for ES and public for MSand HS. I don't care about status and cannot afford 13-14 years of private school so I choose to spend it from 4 to 10 or 12

The reasonable school options in DC decrease at the MS and HS level. (This is the DCPS/DCPCS forum, after all.) That is why parents switch from public to private or move to the suburbs. They are looking for the best possible option for their children.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems to me that although many of the posters claim that they want to send their kids to public first because they're not into status, it is per Cicely because they're so concerned about status that they want to make sure that their kids graduate from a name private school. Otherwise, why not just send them to public all the way through.

Agreed. Like some of the previous posters, I prefer to send my kids to private for ES and public for MSand HS. I don't care about status and cannot afford 13-14 years of private school so I choose to spend it from 4 to 10 or 12

The reasonable school options in DC decrease at the MS and HS level. (This is the DCPS/DCPCS forum, after all.) That is why parents switch from public to private or move to the suburbs. They are looking for the best possible option for their children.

There's no right or wrong answer, and those who have the option of choosing private school for some period are obviously a very small, quite fortunate group. Given that, plenty of people do the opposite of what you're suggesting. Our kids are in private for elementary and middle (middle seems to be the most popular among people I know) and then going to public application school or Wilson for high school. Not saying that DCPS and charter high schools are perfect, but some people think that kids are better able to deal with DCPS's myriad issues by their teenage years, and also that the larger variety of extracurriculars and (at Wilson, at least) the broad range of classes can be beneficial. YMMV.